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without fear of betraying and compromising themselves,
as a reference to the correspondence they then had will
readily prove.*
Tp mask this infernal conspiracy, they had en-
trenched themselves in diplomatic forms ; it was the
more easily to blind the eyes of the people toward»
their horrible attempts, that after having come to $
thorough understanding in their private meetings, they
t»ek a fancy tp negociate by writing ; it was easy for
them by using ambiguous phrases, and words pre-
viously «greed upon, to explain and understand one
another in points adopted and discussed iq secret ia
the cabinet.
Thus Pétipn, by a crime hitherto unexampled ia
tbe annals of nations, sold the Haytians by his corres-
pondence even before their faces, at the very moment
of his pretending to defend their cause, and maintain
thejr rights,. What frightful depravity ! what base
hypocrisy !
In the course of time I gave tbe details pf this con-
spiracy ,in one of my publications, entitled " The cry-
of conscience." In an essay destined, like this, to
furnish materials for a history of Hayti, I cpnceive
myself bound to transmit facts pf so much importance
to posterity ; happy, far happier than we have^een, ia
not having witnessed crimes so horrible as those which
have .stained and disgraced our national character.
I resume my narrative.
,On the 9th of November, Dauxion Lavaysse offici-
ally required Pétion to " restore the French colony in
" the Island of Hayti, and to constitute himself, with the
44 principal officers,president and members of a provisional
" government of Hayti, in the name of his Majesty Louis
** xviii." t   In the same note this spy urged Pétion to
# Appendix B.      •+ Appendix B. No. 3. page xviii.-